Ethnic Studies Department

Situated in a region where the US-Mexico border zone, indigenous national and tribal governments, and the Asia-Pacific interact to produce a dynamic geopolitical location, UCSD’s Ethnic Studies Department is a vibrant community of scholars committed to the interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, sexuality, class, and dis/ability.

The department’s innovative approach represents a commitment to transnational, relational, and intersectional methods for producing critical knowledge about power and inequality, including systems of knowledge that have emerged from racialized and indigenous communities in global contexts.

Ethnic Studies is devoted to creative, conceptual, and empirical research; critical pedagogy; collaborations with a broad group of affiliated faculty; and social justice projects developed with and for the university, our home communities, and the broader public.

Learn more about the Ethnic Studies Department, or read the UCSD Principles of Community.

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Kit Myers!

Please join us in congratulating Ph.D. Candidate Kit Myers who has been selected by the Committee on Senate Awards as a recipient of the Barbara and Paul Saltman Excellent Teaching Award for Graduate Students.

Congratulations, Kit, and thank you for all that you do for our students.

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Kinney!

Please send your heartiest congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Kinney who has just signed a contract for a tenure track job at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She will have a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies and the Department of Popular Culture. Dr. Kinney is the first new hire of the newly formed School of Cultural and Critical Studies.

Congratulations to Kyung Hee!

Our congratulations go to Kyung Hee who has been awarded a Friends of the UCSD International Center Ruth Newmark Scholarship.

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/campaign/06-09InternationalCenter.asp

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Cathi Kozen!

Congratulations to Ethnic Studies Ph.D. candidate Cathi Kozen on her new publication! Her article, "Redress as American-Style Justice: Congressional Narratives of Japanese American Redress at the End of the Cold War," has just come out in the journal Time and Society in its special issue on “Memory, History and Justice.” This article is based on Cathi's MA thesis.

Below is the link to the special issue:

http://tas.sagepub.com/content/current

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Stevie Ruiz!

Ethnic Studies is pleased to announce that Ph.D. candidate Stevie Ruiz was one of ten UCSD graduate students inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education held at Yale University on March 30-31, 2012.

Information about the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society can be found at:

http://ogs.ucsd.edu/student-affairs/graduate-diversity/student-support-and-programs/bouchet-graduate-honor-society/index.html

Congratulations to Professor Curtis Marez!

Congratulations to Professor Curtis Marez, Vice Chair of Ethnic Studies, who has been elected President of the American Studies Association effective July 2012. This is an honor for the department, and we wish him success in all his undertakings during his leadership term.

Congratulations to Professor Yen Espiritu!

Congratulations to Professor Yen Espiritu, Chair of Ethnic Studies, who has been selected as the first recipient of a Mentorship Award from the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), to be awarded in April, 2012 at the annual AAAS meeting in Washington, DC!

From the AAAS letter:

"AAAS created this award to celebrate the outstanding mentorship of undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and/or colleagues in the field of Asian American Studies. This award marks the significance of mentoring in our growing field; without excellent and devoted mentors, Asian American Studies would miss one of its most valuable personal and professional dimensions. The many colleagues and former students who wrote to support your nomination spoke of your long record of genuine collegiality, your empathy for others, and your fostering of critical thinking and social justice. Let me add my heartfelt words of appreciation to theirs, and thank you for all the things you have done to advance our field."

Congratulations to Ma Vang: AAAS Best Grad Student Paper Award!

Congratulations to Ma Vang, Ethnic Studies graduate student, whose paper, "The Refugee Soldier," has been selected to be the 2012 recipient of the AAAS Best Graduate Student Paper Award, an award created to "recognize innovative scholarship that stretches our imagination."

According to the AAAS Award Committee, "the committee was particularly impressed with how [the] paper was thoroughly researched, filled with rich detail and crisp analysis. [The] clear and focused writing style helped introduce the idea of refugee soldier as a subject of study."